Snow Current References

Current Snow Water Equivalent & Monitoring

• Brasnett, B., 1999: A global analysis of snow depth for numerical weather prediction. J. Appl. Meteorol., 38: 726-740.
• Brown, R. and P. Mote (2009). The Response of Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover to a Changing Climate. J Climate. 2124–2145.
• Brown, R., Derksen, C. & Wang, L. (2010) A multi-data set analysis of variability and change in Arctic spring snow cover extent, 1967–2008. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
• CoCoRaHS. (2011). Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow Network homepage. Retrieved from CoCoRaHS Canada : http://www.cocorahs.org/Canada.aspx
• Environment Canada. (2013). Monthly & Seasonal Forcasts . Retrieved from Environment Canda Weather : http://weather.gc.ca/saisons/index_e.html
• NOAA. (2013). Automated Snow Mapping System. Retrieved from NOAA Star: Center for Satellite Applications and Research: http://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/smcd/emb/snow/HTML/snow.htm

Current Trends

• Derksen, C., & Brown, R. (2012). Snow. Retrieved from Arctic Report Card: Update for 2012: http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard/snow.html
• IPCC, 2013: Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Stocker, T.F., D. Qin, G.-K. Plattner, M. Tignor, S.K. Allen, J. Boschung, A. Nauels, Y. Xia, V. Bex and P.M. Midgley (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, 1535 pp.
• NC State University . (2012). Global Patterns -- Arctic & North Atlantic Oscillations . Retrieved from State Climate Office of North Carolina: http://www.nc-climate.ncsu.edu/climate/patterns/NAO.html
• SWIPA. (2011). Changing Snow Cover and its Impacts. Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic .